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Let's start this off with
bio2's link to "the tube": an unrollable laptop:super crazy hardware.
seizer sent us the most amusing firewall circumventer: a TCP/IP Email Tunnel.
While on the subject of bizarre technology,
John Petz sent us a webserver running on an Atari 800.
Still not in shock?
hool sent us a hack over at x42.com which uses the hostname as input
to a calculator.
tdunn linked us to a place that lists odd things found inside PC cases.
It includes a *shudder* severed finger tip.
For more wierd tech support, yeahbensteres submitted iamanidiot.com which has some tales that you may or may not believe.
Pike sent us 94 Uses for Old Altoids Tins: Who eats 94 tins of altoids? Oh... wait.
OwenF sent us linkage to the latest robotic pet craze. Look out AIBO, here comes Robotic Fish!
Slashdot's own jamiemccarthy points us to TimeCube.com for all your wierd-science needs.
You econ majors might be interested in
Yhetti's link to the
fortune-cookie market index.
Bradley noted a story about a man who
changed his name to 'Oxford University' to avoid domain squatting charges from Oxford University.
If you have a mission:impossible scheduled next week,
Dr. Manhattan sent us a link to a Swiss company that is developing self-destructing CDs. The CIA has some on back order.
An anonymous reader pointed us to EarthKam, which has several really beautiful pictures of earth from space. Check out their top 10 ... if only
they were bigger they'd make great background art.
And finally for those of you who are sick of all the naughty language
on TV,
deepak saxena sent us a machine that claims it will filter all the damn swearing from TV and video.
I'm waiting for a version that filters out Regis.
Chicken wishbone Placed inside the Central Processing Unit (CPU) by a customer to prevent the machine crashing.
More and more often lately I've been hearing people refer to the case as the CPU. Who's spreading this around?
DAMMIT! You got first post AGAIN?!
You can only push me so far before I snap. Do you have any idea how jealous
I am? I am INSANELY jealous. Do you know what that means?
You will wake up with you lover's severed head in your bed. That's how jealous I am.
You will find all your clothes with a scarlet "Posted First" patch sewed on them. That's how jealous I am.
You will see me on Hard Copy or A Current Affair, spilling all your secrets. That's how jealous I am.
You are playing with fire. Do not deny me First Post again. Or else THE RABBIT GETS BOILED!
Got it?
an unrollable laptop? do regular laptops roll? is that like a roll bar for a laptop? some kind of ruggedized laptop? what does that mean? *ponder* *think* why does that make me think of tobacco paper?
oh! *lightbulb* a laptop that UNROLLS! wiggy.
While cleaning out old computers, used in tech labs (ie: wood shop), to be re-used for either spare parts or workstations at my school, we came across all manner of broken parts, missing pieces (some people just love stealing RAM from computers) and other various tidbits, but one day along with the usual pen lids, crumpled up paper and dust I found: a full sandwich, still in a ziplock baggie. My theory? Someone taking tech decided that, because their computer was going slowly, it was hungry.
>I can't Imagine that Atari being able to handle the slashdot effect.
Why? The Atari 8-bits are a lot tougher than you think.
You can put your weed in there!
-- Object known as a camera. Vintage uncertain, origin unknown. - Twilight Zone
I hope atleast that the decimal URL:s works with squid.
cheers,
That was a hoax.
We do have cable TV, you know. It can often take several minutes to find out that there's nothing worth watching.
In Britain, those 7 banned words can all be heard on broadcast TV, though not before the "watershed" of 9pm.
Aren't they all, sooner or later?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Have all utilities-phone, power, cable, etc-disconnected.
Discontinue all newspaper delivery
Remove mailbox, get restraining order against postperson
Put RF shielding over and around house
And at the rate he's becoming ubiquitous, surround property with barb wire fence and put in landmines
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
"We focus our tests very strongly on the CD, mainly because we can get an endless supply of CDs to destroy,..."
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Apparently calling them the Central *Intelligence* Agency is a dis-information ploy.
From the article
"Two years ago, in an attempt to test potential market reaction to the system, George approached Tibbetts, a US based company that supplies the CIA with miniature electronics components. Tibbetts approached the CIA on George's behalf, offering a price of material costs plus $15 per exploding device, based on an order of 100,000 units. The CIA was very interested in the product but on a smaller initial scale - it offered to pay $70 per unit for an amount of 50,000 units when the product was complete. This offer has now been on hold for two years, as the team in Switzerland continues to develop the system."
Am I the only one who thinks that sounds like paying 3.5 million dollars for 50K of them instead of 1.5 million dollars for 100K of them? At that rate we could have bought one for about 1.7 trillion dollars. Imagine what we would have had to pay to keep them from sending us any.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
pronoblem
Sorry, but haven't better than 50% of these quickies been on /. in the past 12 months? C'mon, don't you even _check_ anymore? .
A computer without Microsoft is like ice cream without ketchup.
Now, I really wish someone would figure out a way to filter out stupidity. You know, where the StupidaGoggles... like what Zaphoid Beeblebrox had, except these filter out stupid things instead of dangerous things. See a warm beer out? *ZAP* Instantly filtered. Now you're not tempted to drink warm beer.
Now if they get together with those 10GB-on-a-scotch-tape-roll people, we can fit, oooh, let's see... (waves thumb at pic) maybe 150GB inside that little tube, then power and optic sockets on one end for rack mounting (LOBOWR, Lots Of Batons On Wine Racks), solar cells on the case and on the rear of the screens for portability, IR and wireless out the other end, and there you have a dream computer.
No, wait, we need a 3-megapixel camera and zoom lens in on end, so have to stick the IR and wireless in the power/fibre end too.
Uh, one more thing, let's squeeze in a laser for measuring distances, pointing at things, and line-of-sight comms. (-:
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
does anyone really care about any of that stuff anyways. it's like the damn forwards that people send me i don't really want them but people send them anyways. they are just useless without and have no meaning at all.
So why haven't you gone into your Slashdot preferences and clicked on the "Quickies" box?
Jay (=
Well, that didn't take long - the Atari 800 web server has been slashdotted about three minutes after the story was posted.
Two words: Star Raiders
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Business. Numbers. Money. People. Computer World.
that is great. How did [s]he get all of those out of there?
-mark
-mark
If your computer says LINUX, run...computers can't talk! [unless you have text-speech software]
Star raiders - Yep still got my copy on cartridge *S* About twice a year I blow the dust off the Atari 400 or 800xl and play a game or two... Shame I never got much better than "Garbage Scow Captain"..... I tried getting it to work in a PC emulator but never had much luck. Maybe I should persevere.
*--BigMan--- Time flies like an arrow.. but personally I prefer a nice glass of wine!
I think the best quote on the page has to be:
Why are you accepting packages for crappy OSes???
An open-sourced package for a crappy OS is just an open-sourced package for a good OS that hasn't been ported yet...
*--BigMan--- Time flies like an arrow.. but personally I prefer a nice glass of wine!
After all, like the only man to ever use nukes for their intended purpose said: "If you can't stand the hits, get off of my keychain"
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If you can go to bed, knowing you did a valuable thing today, you're very lucky. If you can't... it's not bedtime
I'm gonna eat you little fishie...
I'm gonna eat you little fishie...
I'm gonna eat you little fishie...
'Cause I like eating fish.
My tooth! My tooth! I think I lost my tooth!
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As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Probably didn't cost them a thing. Over in the shipping dept here at my office, we've easily got about 20x as many peanuts as it would take to fill a cubicle... Of course, we do a lot of shipping. :)
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- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Finally. It took this long for Mr. Ray to get Slashdot notoriety. This is still the funniest site I've ever read. Gene Ray is too loony for this stuff to be a joke. Crackpot pseudoscience at its best!
You are stupid and evil and do not know that you are stupid and evil!
Atari 800? Did you say Atari 800?
I believe, somewhere in the dark recesses of the storage areas in my bookstore, among the old TRS-80s, I've got one of those things. Maybe I should be using it as a server for my bookstore, instead of letting it collect dust.
Or maybe I'll just put it on eBay.
paperbacks.homepage.com
Visit Lockjaw's Lair. He won't bite.
Its slashdoted. What a surprize :P
ReadThe ReflectionEngine, a cyberpunk style n
Option 1, the guy is under extreme psychosis and actually believes the tripe.
Option 2, the guy is a typical evangelist attempting to gain power and money by starting a cult by suckering gullible low-IQ poorly educated people.
Option 3, the website is merely a parody of other major religions, such as christianity (e.g. he may be parodying behaviour of many christian churches that strive to keep its people uneducated and ignorant, to maintain power/money.)
Option 4, the guy has reached a wisdom plateau above that of God, and we are all STUPID AND IGNORANT FROM BRAINWASHING FROM EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
Hard to say, really.
Yes, poor poor 8-Bitty.
But I just love the idea of using that old gear to serve webpages. Had to printout this article to show it to my fellow hackers at tonights LUG-Meeting.
Now if I only'd remember where I put my old C64... I could let it serve the webpages right off the 1541. 170 KByte should be enough for some text. (And if not, I'll pack the rest on a C-90-Tape, using the Datassette =:-) )
--- If OS were buildings, then the first woodpecker to come around would erase 95 % of civilization.
Ahh... come on! Have mercy with this poor old grandpa of computer-technology.
=:-)
--- If OS were buildings, then the first woodpecker to come around would erase 95 % of civilization.
Using captioning to filter tv is such a broken idea it's not funny. $150 for that? Shit, the parts probably cost about five bucks. Carl's idea was much better. Real-time analysis and interpretation of the video or audio signal. That's _real_ filtering.
This is nothing new I have been doing this for over a year... it is integral with a product that I developed.... come on
... that is cool I have destoyed mine more than once...
Now the Laptop
You know it's bad when you do have 94 altoid tins. I've been wondering what I can do with them...
if(!toilet_paper) roll.replace(new roll);
The Fox overdubbed version of Wierd Science:
"She kicked me in the in the nuts" became "She kicked me in the guts" (not too bad), with the follow-up "In the flippin gizzard?" dubbed over the original line (which I can't remember what it was).
I enjoy watching dubbed movies, just because the cheesiness makes me roll on the floor...
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
And check out fun with Microwaves link that is on the Altoids page.
"Hey man, A cube has 8 corners, and 6 sides, punk."
That is what they want you to believe - your education has made you ignorant.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Shutup. You are a stupid brainwashed pedant. You are ignorant because you were born into lies. Everybody lies to you and then you lie. It is a vicious circle. Your education has made you ignorant. You are the most worthless form of human being. Just think, when the sun rises where you are it will be setting on the other side of the earth. This is because of the four corners of the cube. And you thought the world was a sphere. Just goes to show how education has made you stoopid.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
My ghod is that allidiots.com funny, yet ultra-disgusting. But it is fun to test out my new DSL on
CFOX here in Vancouver, BC had a contest last year, and one of the contestants had to legally change his name to Heywood Jablowme.
Cheers,
Rick Kirkland
I was thinking about this a bit. Having a CDROM that explodes on command is useful but only in a small number of cases. Trying to come up with something other than "Oh shoot, they're here, blow up the CDs," I came up with the following idea:
* Manufacturer a special drive with a detonator. Make there be some other minor differences as well.
* Make explodable CDs that can only be read by the type of drive with the built in detonator.
* In a normal CDROM drive, the disc does nothing (unreadable).
* In a detonator-enabled drive, it asks for your private key and checks it against the public key used for the disc. If they match, you're good to go.
* If they don't match, burn baby burn.
A more secure (paranoid) way to send bulk amounts of data around.
-y
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for slashdot.sig (129323052 bytes).
The minor time of his dawn may be the minor time of your dusk, but it is on yOUr words that the sun will set. To spin the truth on four corners is aRt. To hide in the corner of your indoctrination is a lie.
come out and let the sun shine upon you, so that you may be free of alleged bliss.
No planemaker will rule the one who trods upon his own vertices...
actually, I have WELL over 100 altoid tins. I've been eating them for years, and I keep thinking I'm going to do SOMETHING useful with the tins . . . about the only thing I've found is they're just the right size to mail dried flowers in (yeah, I'm a sap, what of it? ;-)
For the record, I have quite a few penguin mints tins too, but they don't sell them anywhere local around here, so I usually just stick to the altoids.
Bad things often happen to good people,
It is up to them to see that they remain good.
And the ploy's working? Looks like the UK courts are more generous than in the U.S.--c.f. Bully Hill Vineyards.
Dude, it is not cool to publicly post real people's phone numbers and addresses. If someone does want to swing by and talk to him, they can email him first, allowing him to tell them his address and invite them over for tea if he wants to (presumably depending on whether they're cubic enough).
And yes, I know it wasn't hard to find in this case (or in any case where someone has an NSI domain name, unfortunately) - but that's not the point.
-- Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. ~ Robert Doisneau
There's already one reply from someone with 100 altoid cans, and all report another instance.
Some friends of mine made a table-top with altoid cans (I don't remember how many; 10x10, I think). It was a basic wooden table with the top carved out, the cans placed in, and a glass sheet on top. I don't remember if they were empty.
Since there's different altoid flavors with different tins, this could start a revolution in interior design. (Darn, that wasn't so funny after I typed it.)
What we need is an altoid theme.
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Did anybody else notice this paragraph? I wonder whom he accepts for the jury ... probably nobody but himself. Otherwise he could become poor very soon, I suspect.
--Carpe diem!
Can anyone give me details on how I'd go about
procuring one? Takara doesn't seem to have a
web site, and I don't know nearly enough people
in Japan...
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Thanks and no thanks for this heinous crime of wasting readers' time with timecube. I ran across this blathering page years ago on a different server and it was repellent at a fraction of the current size. Now, quickly scanning the interminable page for anything redeeming due to your recommendation I feel like half my neurons are fried! (Only the cruelty cubicle photo saved the day). Feels much like an sf novel (Timelike Infinity I believe) which had an extraterrestrial intelligence test that destroyed the minds of Earth's best.. it took a mediocre mind to beat it.
Is there a measurement for the collective amount of processing power or time alive on this planet which gets wasted/wellspent/fed to a given slashdot piece? Ouch.
"Truth about Santa Claus debunks Santa God. God evolves from Santa."
"Educated people are stupid cowards."
"Not a single university has accepted my challenge for a public debate of Nature's Time Cube."
"Pedants cannot comprehend that there are 4 simultaneous Years within a single rotation of Earth about the Sun."
"Greenwich Time is a Lie"
"Your midday is someone else's midnight, someone else's sundown and even someone else's sunup."
That last one is the most coherent statement on the entire site.
It may not make sense, but it's sure entertaining... (Of course, all this is old news to me... Pardon the blatant plug. ;))
Time Cube is a lie.
It limit you to 4 days.
Why? When you can have an infinite number of days with a Time Sphere.
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
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NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Only some of them, my last troll was modded up to (4, Insightful). *Hee hee*.
The self-destructing CDs were also on Slashdot a while back, although I'm too lazy to look up the exact article right now.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are not necessarily my own, as I've not yet had my medication today.
No, wait, never mind. I was thinking of the CDs that degrade after the first time they're read.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are not necessarily my own, as I've not yet had my medication today.
That last one is the most coherent statement on the entire site.
There was at least one point where he was actually insightful. Somewhere in the ranting, he said "Word is a Trojan Horse". For years, I've been saying that all Microsoft software, not just MS Word, is a virus. How else could it have spread to 90+% of computers?
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are not necessarily my own, as I've not yet had my medication today.
It's there at the top of the comments section, labelled "Theshold". Set it to 2 or higher to filter out the trolls.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are not necessarily my own, as I've not yet had my medication today.
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Stay tuned for some shock and awe coming right up after this messages!
There is an ongoing project to put together a usable PPP connection on the Atari 8-bit; it's located here.
The program is so simple it could even run on an 8k Atari 400 (remember those?)
Later models (the 600xl, 800xl and 130xe) had a parallel bus - I'm sure they could handle higher throughput.
Hmm... a minimally featured webserver on the Atari 8-bit. Hasn't anyone ported Apache there yet?
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Book(n): Utensil used to pass time while waiting for the TV repairman
Try talking to the guy My email conversation with him so far, read from the bottom up :) If you would become wise in the principle of the Time, Life or Truth Cube, there may be nothing in the universe that you cannot understand. Like the Solar system, the Earth sphere and even your human body , there is a top and bottom parameter, a front and back and 2 sides - Cube values. Add a timer ( tick-tock heart) to your Cube body and you exist as a Time Cube traveler. No god has ever ascended to my wisdom plateau. Gene Ray "Scott, Simon" wrote: > So how, pray tell, does your theory of 4 corners relate to modern day > living? How does it relate at all? What insights does it give us that are in > anyway beneficial? I couldnt really follow the site, the oversized font and > terrible grammar made it heavy going.. > > You're starting to scare me, Im starting to think you are serious! :) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gene Ray [mailto:oray612959@earthlink.net] > Sent: Friday, 31 March 2000 12:37 > To: Scott, Simon > Subject: Re: timecube.com > > A lot of other stupid and evil people have said that same thing - > that they are stupid and blissful. > > Gene Ray > > "Scott, Simon" wrote: > > > This is the funniest site Ive read in ages. > > > > Thanks for the laugh > > > > > > -- > [InternetShortcut] > URL=http://www.earthlink.net/ -- [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.earthlink.net/
Simon
The real linux_penguin has Slashdot ID 101961. Anyone else is an impostor. Including Bruce Perens.
I work for a website that is (semi) regularly featured in the topic of Slashdot threads (no, its NOT ZDNet). A link to our site from the Slashdot homepage adds several hundred thousand extra hits in the time its featured. At the rate of handling a "several requests a second", it will only take that poor Atari 800 a year and a half to crawl out of the hole.
lame.name
cool.post
see.you
la.ter
la.mer
hehe my last name's the same as the guy who talked about the expoding CD. hehe moriarty
.sig:
http://siokaos.org/
Why would anyone want to filter regis. he is quite possibly the coolest guy that ever lived. The best part about Regis is that he secretly hates EVERYBODY if you watch him on Regis and Kathy Lee he makes fun of everyone.
drug law enforcement is modern day witch hunting.
Um guys, it *is* April Fools Day tomorrow you know......
Cheers,
Tim
(The Garbageman of Kilburn)
"Fleece the gullible, mislead the impressionable, assassinate the
uneducatable and invoice everyone..."
d00d, this is the future of personal computing, in a future we can put in our asshole an pIII 650 mhz, 256 RAM notebook wiht tube shape... but ists great, when i found that design i get shocked instantly... and i think that designs will kick ass apple design... "i found my femme side, and i discover that my femme side is lesbian"
---- EoF
SLASHDOT IS EVIL, you should be ashamed of yourselves. SLASHDOTTING AN ATRI800! What has this world come to. Next we will be slashdoting a poor defenseless little electronic watch, evil, bad slashdot.
"`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'" -THHGTTG
The "Uses for an Altoid tin" site has a link to a guy who put a webserver on a PIC microcontroller, including a real TCP/IP stack (not just a plain serial link with a terminal server handling the TCP/IP, as the Atari 800 webserver is). Much cooler, IMO :)
Damn, that even beats out CAMNEERG, the web serving mac plus! (At least camneerg has the added "feature" of displaying everything backwards, thus the name).
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
We did this to one of my friend's trucks about a year and a half ago. He still gets a stray peanut shooting out of the vent every now and then.
Hey, is it just me, or did we kill that poor Atari 800? I can't seem to get at it.
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Star Trek vs Star Wars. Take a look. You may like it.
So *thats* where my finger went....."
You see, that's what you get when you fail Gateway's Gom Jabbar.
"$900 for a 15' monitor? The Pain!!!"
***JUMP PAD ACTIVATION INITIATION START***
***TRANSPORT WHEN READY***
***JUMP PAD ACTIVATION INITIATION START***
***TRANSPORT WHEN READY***
"odd things found inside PC cases. It includes a *shudder* severed finger tip"
So *thats* where my finger went.....
Jailbrekr.Feed The Need[goatse.cx]
I'm used to UK TV (where they show films as they were intended rather than cutting them to fit the slot and removing all the swearing as they do here). Now I live in the states, and even when it's way past 9pm they still turn all the M*th*rf*ck*rs into Melon Farmers.
Not so bad on the standard Hollywood rubbish, but Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels without swearing is like Slashdot without ... er ... news.
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It's a
-- Danny Vermin
Wow - the Curse free rig is back. I saw a network news blurb over the holiday season about that thing. Can I get one or hack one to filter my Sunday morning viewing content so I don't get Pat Robertson trying to convert me from my radical agnostic ways whilst channel bumping?
I also couldn't help but notice that the unit will filter "Televsion, Video, and DVD" Filtering DVD!? Isn't that like altering CONTENT? No word on what the 100 or so filtered words might be but maybe I could get an old George Carlin LP from eBay to get me started. Also I'd like to see other religious versions out on the market - one that would filter out things like holy cow.
How about it - let's try and see how many uses we can find for an altered CurseFree rig, like some fun filter items to replace with a meaning of your choice;
one better than mcleodeight
Oh I feel so bad for that Atari 800. Now the poor little guy is going to get Slashdotted, thus destroyed by too many hits. I'm sure he can only handle a couple of hits at a time. While I enjoy Slashdot completely, I don't know if I agree with purposely reporting a story that will, without a doubt, cripple a timid and vulnerable piece of hardware. I feel bad for the little guy.
"The television is the retina of the mind's eye" - Videodrome
Totally. I can see that poor old thing now. Smoke coming out the side. Sparks flying. A weird unearthly screach as the processor melts into a big paperweight. I love technology :)
Makes a great cigarette (or whatever you like to roll up and smoke) case!
-- Why is there blue shit all over MY shit?! -Josh in Blair Witch Project
Well I'm going to keep hitting refresh every five seconds until it comes back!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Oooh, I'd forgotten that. Considering the current state of 'free speech,' the way the gov't treats such things as encryption, and in fact the general attitude towards technology, that's way more likely now than it would have been 15 years ago when the book was written. If some genius comes up with the real implementation of this, let's hope they GPL it . . . and post it on some massive distributed anonymous file sharing system so that it's everywhere.
I think the Atari 800 server is GREAT! Ive been joking about incredibly slow sites for a few years now. I'd always say to myself, "what are these people running this site of an Atari or a scientific calculator or something" I just think its great that my own sick humor is someones reality.
Not everyone is in the Military but some of us have secrets that we would like to share in a controlled format. Can the same thing (data destruction) be accomplished without destroying the cd-rom? Imagine setting data destruction parameters - (number of times read, number of days, if the cd-rom was installed on a client owned by "fill in your favorite evil empire here") all at the time of a cd burn. Cool, very cool.
If the firewall allows any UDP port through, you can use CIPE .
It rocks... is point to point, requires a linux box at each end. Can use a different udp port each way. Prolly a wee tad faster than email.
You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is still a sigh.
EarthKAM full resolution images (3k by 2k) can be accessed via download page...
THere are a number of places out there that have such posters here is one: http://www.arcscience.com/frameset.htm
He even has an Atari BBS running over the internet!
Is the instructions to the motherboard. They are small so they are easy to slip in -- and the instructions never seem to be around when you need them. If you are taking apart your computer you probably need it anyway!
To follow up to my own post, seems there's a lot of questions surrounding the mysterious "cube full 'o peanuts"
In no particular order:
1) this isn't an illusion...well, not really. Those are real packing peanuts, alright, in a real cubicle.
2) The whole thing took about 20 minutes to set up, and less than 10 minutes to breakdown and clean up.
3) I have all the "other" pictures of the setup of this prank, so when I see this posted as a quickie link 6 months from now off of tedsbeavertraps.com I'll be able to show that this was indeed the product of my co-workers' own sick minds.
Stay tuned, we will probably run a detailed story next week sometime on theswindle.com with all the setup pics, and detailed instructions on how to do this to one of your co-workers. Estimated total cost of materials: $25.
I think the neatest things from this were links off the Altoid tin page, including the match-head sized web server, and the Altoid tin radio.
--Phil (And who doesn't like Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments?)
355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible simulation!
The australianIT page search page is giving errors, so I can't find it. I don't even know if australianIT keeps archives.
Here's a link to theregister's article about it. The link from that article to the original is also broken. See http://www.oxford-university.com/ for the guy's side of the story.
The original had more info though. IIRC, apparently the person answers the phone as "Mr University". Anyone know where the original article is?
Bradley
PS - extrans mode is broken again.
Anyways.. goto http://download.linux.com/multimedia/cc.c and download the closed caption reader, it has builtin keyword beep but if you change line 424 to run a system() call you have it run something like 'xawtv-remote mute' and get the same effect as that hardware gizmo..
I think it would be more fun to have it search for words that are obviously censored and play an audio clip of the appropriate word.
- MbM
- MbM
Has anyone had any luck getting squid to accept the URL for the Calculator link? Is the problem
that it really isn't a valid string for URL->URI translation, or whatever?
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
The Oxford University name-change was pretty funny. Reminds me of an image I once saw that was scanned from a newspaper of a guy who changed his name to Heywood Jablowme. I dunno if it was legit or not, but it was funny nonetheless.
*chuckles*
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
I believe this is one of those 'In 1989 we will all have rocket packs...' look-into-the-future articles. Probably just a concept from a design student. Of course it is really cool and I have dreamed of something similar for years. Hopefully polymer based LED's will become a reality and we can roll up our monitors and carry them under our arms.
Scuttlemonkey is a troll
No one really has 94 tins of Altoids. However, Penguin Mints come in tins about the same size, and I DO have a growing collection. Mmmm....penguin mints....caffeine...must have caffeine.... C A F F E I N E
Why would you think i'm an addict?
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If your computer says LINUX, run...computers can't talk! [unless you have text-speech software]
The Oxford University one is hilarious... except the link appears to be 404 not found :[
Slashdot. It's Not For Common Sense
Mouse (deceased) The PC World technician who discovered the dead rodent believes the mouse had squirmed into the body of the PC through an empty card slot in a bid to keep warm. The mouse presumably died from either starvation or electrocution
My own personal experience can actually help in determining this one, should anyone ever have to determine for themselves whether the mouse inside your computer died of electrocution or more natural causes.
Approximately a decade ago, my phone went dead. An investigation showed a live line at the box outside, so I climbed under the house to inspect the line. At one point, a staple holding the line had pulled free, and the line fell across a heating duct. Near this duct, the line had drooped low to the ground.
Apparently, a mouse decided to test this line by eating the insulation, and had actually cleared several inches of insulation before severing the wire completely. An undetermined amount of time later, while the mouse chewed on the live end of the line, the phone apparently rang.
Telltale signal that electrocution was the culprit? The massive squirt of fecal matter, directly behind the mouse from when it had the shit shocked out of it.
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Visit Lockjaw's Lair. He won't bite.
What's with you wussies feeling sorry for that Atari 800 webserver? If it can't stand the hits, it should get off the 'net!
Screw sympathy - let's melt that f*cker down!
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
God damn it.. I want one.. that has to be the least informative page I've ever seen.
How we know is more important than what we know.
An esteemed colleague, Brian Eng, has decided to dye his gigantic afro. Being the procurer of an afro myself, I feel I have an obligation to endorse this on a site that might contain more afro-wearers per capita than any other.
Click here to gently nudge the vote!
-- BlueCalx | http://nickd.org/
The roll-up laptop was MY idea! And they all said I was crazy. The design I had was pretty much . . . no exactly the same. I was looking into it over a year ago - finding materials, pcb designs, chipsets, etc.
To those one slashdot who know me in real life:
I told you so!
Oh wait, my design was one better. You could take off one of the ends of the cylinder and use it as a mouse. (Or does theirs have that too? I may have missed it.)
Thanks for the memories. I originally learned to program (after a short stint on a TI/99-4A) in BASIC and assembler on an old Atari 600. People doing stuff like making a web server out of old hardware just crack me up. BTW, I got through fine.
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About the only redeeming factor I see is that the webserver is running apache on FreeBSD (but I'd wager the guy who created the site doesn't even know what FreeBSD or apache are).
So really, did I miss something extraordinary by just skimming that page? If so, please enlighten me.
The link to the company developing exploding cd's was interesting, but what we all really want to know is can AOL be convinced to put the thermite pyrotechnic coating on there giveaway cd's and can the detonator be attached easily to my letterbox?
First off....How horrible... /.ing an Atari. I feel guilty doing it.
Why? Why those damn pseudo animals. The electronic equivelants to complete uselessness. My cat (Not a bot) has to earn a living around the house. She catches bugs and i give her food. Where would someone get so confused on what a pet does?
Why am i ranting. Most likely the result of visiting timecube. I walk away feeling all slick and nasty from that strange little site. Perhaps i am a little to inept to understand whats going on. Either way i feel stretched and chewed apon from the inside out.
The tube may be the coolest little laptop design idea yet. This may be something i can actually get into. Im not a weight lifter and i don't have 0.003 micron fingers capable of typing on some of the keyboards available. So, This may just be the answer.
The man who changed his name. Does it really matter to him? What possible motivation could encourage this behaviour? Let not forget Dotcom guy..arg.
The e-mail tunnel is astounding. To think someone wanted out of the firewall that bad. Wow.
off and out
off and out
With the products of fufme.com soon to be at large, I believe that more strange things will be found in computer cases (wink wink say no more) LONG LIVE REN AND STIMPY!!!!!!!!!!
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Carl Sagan put this idea into "Contact" many years ago. It was fictionally called "adnix." It detected the speech patterns of advertising and blocked them out. Fictionally, following soon after "adnix" came "preachnix."
I find it faintly ironic that the preachers beat everyone else to it. Considering the sponsors of that site, I'm sure we'll see "DarwinFree" and "BiasedLiberalMediaFree" next.
That reminds me of a site i visit frequently-- here's a link. it's a real webcam, and much more useful.
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
If you look a bit back from the "Tube" page to here, you find that the fanciful tube is one of the ideas from the same people (IDEO) that helped design the Palm V and the Transmeta Web-slate. So, such a thing might not be too far off (though the title of the whole thing was "Welcome to 2010").
The whole series of stuff is pretty cool - flexible large-screen TV's, VR cave style "smart cubicles", and other cool things. The article seems to have a broken link at the end of the chain though.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Heard this story a little while ago, and I believe it was in reference to the CurseFree product. Seems that they had programmed the thing to flag on keywords. Not too uncommon. Problem was, it was pretty undiscriminating.
The most egregious error? The "Dick Van Dyke" show was titled the "Penis Van Lesbian" show.
Possibly an urban legend, but it sounds plausible to me.
I love this quote:
"Strict and Religious Settings
Curse Free TV's Strict setting filters out all offensive phrases, including when the names of God are used in an exclamatory way. The Religious setting, however, when viewing Christian programming, allows the names of God to come through without filtering them out."
Well, thank ---!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Just thought I'd share this photo of what happened to one of my co-workers last week. We're a pretty cruel bunch, and simple pranks just don't cut it in my office.
yes, it's going to be blatantly obvious by the time i say this.
/. will subside to a non-overwhelming level as this article disappears into the void of "older stuff", but surely the Atari 800 will be so traumatized by this event that it will take years of therapy before it fully recovers psychologically.
yes, it's cliched to say this, and it's a running joke on slashdot to say things of this sort.
but it needs to be said:
cdmrtaco.. what were you THINKING?? unleashing the slashdot effect on an Atari 800?? That's just CRUEL!!
the quickies have been up eight minutes, there are only four comments, and ALREADY the poor thing's slashdotted all to hell.
Yes, i realize in a couple days the traffic from
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
With an HTML page of only 250 bytes, this process can support several hits per second on the 9600 baud link!
*wince*
~=Keelor